BROOKE v. NORFOLK

No. 229.

277 U.S. 27 (1928)

BROOKE v. CITY OF NORFOLK ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 23, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert B. Tunstall, with whom Mr. Nathaniel T. Green was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. E. Warren Wall for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

The petitioner applied in the local form of proceeding for the correction of two assessments for taxation alleged to be erroneous and contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court of first instance, The Corporation Court of the City of Norfolk, upheld both assessments as valid, and the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia rejected a petition for a writ of error on the...

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